TT Podcast 22: Hans Gygax on Kinism Problems, Solutions

I interviewed Hans Gygax on his views of Kinism problems and solutions. View Hans’ articles here.

Note: My apologies for the poor audio, but we did the best with the equipment and circumstances we had.

You Are Dead

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:2-3

The Christian life is the polar opposite of the life of any life on earth. The word picture often given in the scriptures is one of self death. When the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Ghost, reached down from heaven and saved Hans Gygax, that very moment Hans died. All of Hans’ ambitions, hopes, and plans vanished like vapor. Everything Hans loved, everything he hated, everything he stood for, was put to death and buried. read more

Not By Might

“And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.” – Nehemiah 1:3-9 read more

Dr. Morton H. Smith: The Racial Problem Facing America

(The following article by Dr. Morton H. Smith originally appeared in the October 1964 issue of The Presbyterian Guardian, a now-defunct magazine that was closely associated with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Dr. Smith is a highly regarded Reformed Christian theologian, and it should be noted that his words from 1964 do not necessarily reflect his current views, nor should the republication of this article by Tribal Theocrat be interpreted as any sort of endorsement of this site by Dr. Smith. While I generally find this essay to be an excellent exposition of Kinist principles, it errs in a few points, the more glaring of which I have parenthetically added my own editorial comments. ~ Mickey Henry) read more

Christmas Charity (Who needs it?)

The following is a fine piece of writing by my friend Rusty. I’m sharing it here with his permission. ~ Mickey Henry

Last week after leaving work I was in a very good mood and had finally gotten a little bit into the Christmas spirit. The traffic was terrible (at least from a country boy’s point of view) and I was anxious to see the city limit sign that greets me every week day on my way home from work. When I see that sign it means that I’m on a four lane highway and can set my cruise control and move along at a healthy pace to the house. Besides that, this was Friday and I didn’t have to work Saturday. Life was good. read more

The Downfall of Doug Phillips and Chalcedon’s Half-Hearted Defense of R. J. Rushdoony’s Legacy

The Kinist community has been watching with great interest the fallout from the public revelation of Doug Phillips’ marital infidelity. While I in no way celebrate the damage done by his sins, I am nevertheless rejoicing in the downfall of a man whose public and private actions have done so much harm to Christendom. Phillips never injured me personally, but let’s just say I find high-functioning pathological narcissists to be intellectually interesting. Plus, a number of my friends were not left unscathed, and Kinists tend to be very protective of their kith & kin from outside attacks. read more

The Quest for Community

County Parade by Mark Daehlin

From Ross Douthat’s generally excellent introduction to Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community:

What was Nisbet’s insight? Simply put, that what seems like the great tension of modernity—the concurrent rise of individualism and collectivism, and the struggle between the two for mastery—is really no tension at all. It seemed contradictory that the heroic age of nineteenth-century laissez faire, in which free men, free minds, and free markets were supposedly liberated from the chains imposed by throne and altar, had given way so easily to the tyrannies of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. But it was only a contradiction, Nisbet argued, if you ignored the human impulse toward community that made totalitarianism seem desirable—the yearning for a feeling of participation, for a sense of belonging, for a cause larger than one’s own individual purposes and a group to call one’s own. read more

A Taxonomy for Comprehending the Occult

Non-Christian thought is a bottomless pit, and one can easily consume himself in its study. Nevertheless, while it is better to comprehend the truth, it is foolhardy to remain ignorant of our enemies. Towards that end, I’ve found the following to be an extremely useful guide when comparing esoteric traditions like Freemasonry, Theosophy, the New Age movement, Kabbalahism, Mormonism, etc. From The Western Esoteric Traditions, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke:

Taking the Renaissance concordance of Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and Kabbalah, along with astrology, alchemy, and magic, Faivre deduced six fundamental characteristics of esoteric spirituality. The ﬁrst four of these he described as intrinsic in the sense of all being necessary for a spirituality to be deﬁned as esoteric. To these he added two more characteristics, which although not necessary, are frequently found together with the others in esoteric traditions. read more